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Population aging and migration
Poutvaara, Panu - 2021
fertility rate and emigration rate are going to develop in Africa. Even modest increases in emigration from Africa would …
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Does demography determine democratic attitudes?
Kotschy, Rainer; Sunde, Uwe - 2022 - Original version: January 2022, this version: September 2022
This paper presents new evidence on how demography affects democratic attitudes in Western democracies. Using individual survey responses, the empirical analysis disentangles age from cohort patterns and other contemporaneous economic and political influences that shape democratic attitudes. The...
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Pensions and fertility : back to the roots ; the introduction of Bismarck's pension scheme and the European fertility decline
Fenge, Robert; Scheubel, Beatrice - 2013
Fertility has long been declining in industrialised countries and the existence of public pension systems is considered … which a public pension system depresses fertility. Our theoretical framework highlights that the effect of a public pension … system on fertility works via the impact of contributions in such a system on disposable income as well as via the impact on …
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Population aging and economic growth : from demographic dividend to demographic drag?
Kotschy, Rainer; Bloom, David E. - 2023
This paper examines the extent to which changes in working-age shares associated with population aging might slow economic growth in upcoming years. We first analyze the economic effects of changing working-age shares in a standard empirical growth model using country panel data from 1950-2015....
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Global demographic change and climate policies
Gerlagh, Reyer; Jaimes, Richard; Motavasseli, Ali - 2017
Between 1950 and 2017, world average life expectancy increased from below-50 to above-70, while the fertility rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011717212
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Demographic structure and macroeconomic trends
Aksoy, Yunus; Basso, Henrique S.; Smith, Ron; Grasl, Tobias - 2016
and growth, whose simulations match our empirical findings. The current trend of population aging and reduced fertility is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457979
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Individual attitudes towards immigration in aging populations
Comertpay, Rana; Irmen, Andreas; Litina, Anastasia - 2019
This research empirically establishes the hypothesis that the process of population aging in a society as a whole affects the attitudes of its members towards immigration. Hence, an aging social environment exerts an effect on the attitudes of individuals towards immigration after accounting for...
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Fertility changes and replacement migration
Aksoy, Yunus; Gylfi Zoega - 2020
significant negative statistical relationship between 16 years lagged fertility and the rate of immigration in a panel of 23 … countries, which indicates that immigration compensates for low fertility in the labor market. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012288027
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Family planning and climate change
Gerlagh, Reyer; Lupi, Veronica; Galeotti, Marzio - 2018
the interactions between climate change and population dynamics. We develop an analytical model of endogenous fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011952006
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Prussia disaggregated : the demography of its universe of localities in 1871
Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco - 2020
, villages, and manors in 1871 Prussia. We study religion, literacy, fertility, and group segregation by location type (town … it is in villages and manors. Finally, a larger share of Jews is associated with lower fertility in towns, which is not …
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